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  • initialism all-trans retinoic acid

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  • Retinoids such as ATRA are naturally occurring derivatives of vitamin A, which plays a major role in the mammalian development process, and is commonly used to induce differentiation of stem cells.

    LabTechnologist RSS 2009

  • Retinoids such as ATRA are naturally occurring derivatives of vitamin A, which plays a major role in the mammalian development process, and is commonly used to induce differentiation of stem cells.

    LabTechnologist RSS 2009

  • I mean, once ATRA slaps a county with its "judicial hellhole" label, it's all a game, isn't it?

    The Practice 2005

  • The idea that 100,000 people die in this country, and you're going to cap the loss -- they've lost a family member through no fault of their own, through the carelessness of somebody else, and the only direction the ATRA and the AMA apparently want to go is to cap the damages of those folks.

    CNN Transcript Jan 7, 2005 2005

  • I mean, once ATRA slaps a county with its "judicial hellhole" label, it's all a game, isn't it?

    The Practice 2005

  • Dr. Chance says the ATRA may put Kate back into remission.

    My Sister’s Keeper Jodi Picoult 2004

  • He thinks it is a combination of the ATRA and the arsenic therapy—some contributing delayed effect—but I know better.

    My Sister’s Keeper Jodi Picoult 2004

  • Unlike chemotherapies, which go in and kill everything in their path, ATRA heads right for chromosome 17.

    My Sister’s Keeper Jodi Picoult 2004

  • Since the translocation of chromosomes 15 and 17 is in part what keeps promyelocyte maturation from happening correctly, ATRA helps uncoil the genes that have bound themselves together…and stops the abnormalities from going further.

    My Sister’s Keeper Jodi Picoult 2004

  • ATRA CURA certainly did not sit behind the horseman on this night; and Brian, to his surprise, found himself singing "Kitty of Coleraine," as he rode along in the silver moonlight.

    The Mystery of a Hansom Cab Fergus Hume 1895

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